Sportscope Television Network, parent company to Headline Sports-The Score, is set to acquire Old Canada Investment in a reverse takeover….

Jerry Ciccoritti is doing well for a director who says he only does episodic work as a means of financing his features. And his filmmaking sensibilities are on display in his Gemini-nominated turn for Sarrazin-Couture’s The City….

A two-month ad campaign has netted fledgling Toronto spot shop Bullet Films the small roster of fresh talent it was looking for….

Few scripts are as personal as The Outer Limits episode that has garnered Sam Egan a Gemini nomination for best writing in a dramatic series. His story, ‘Tribunal,’ is based to a large extent on his father’s experiences in Auschwitz. The…

‘Intro’ begins with a rave chick singing the praises of Twix, the chocolate bar with the cookie and caramel centre. To give the spot the desired retro-psychedelic style, Toronto post studio Crush supplied some groovy mouth-watering graphics that enhance each sequence,…

Some say the best post work goes virtually undetected, and Flashcut Editing’s Norm Odell might agree. Toronto-based editor Odell is largely responsible for the post-production and editing on the Clearnet campaign from Taxi Advertising, headed up by creative director Paul Lavoie….

Montreal: The National Film Board’s French Program anticipates delivery of some 40 doc and animation productions in the coming year. More than two dozen docs are in various stages of production, a level of production unlikely to be matched in years…

Salter Street producer Paul ‘beanone’ Donovan has gone online with a written tribute to fans of sci-fi series Lexx, which faced uncertain prospects with the u.s. sci fi network until the net greenlit another season last month….

Montreal: Astral Media has closed a public offering of 2.5 million class a non-voting shares at a price of $38.50, representing gross proceeds of $96.2 million….

CTV boasts a record-setting 4.17 million viewer tally on its first installment of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Canadian Edition, aired Sept. 13….

* Jon Festinger, the founding gm at vtv in Vancouver and a senior vp at ctv, is leaving both jobs after three years for a new cyberspace-oriented position. Effective Oct. 1. he becomes president and ceo of Bycast Media Systems, a…

David Sutherland says he owes his sanity to hip hop….